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You can download Prime Video from the App Store on your Apple TV. Gogole's own Chromecast does not supportAmazon Video. Unlike the Amazon Fire TV, which will lose YouTube on January 1, the Apple TV has all the major video streaming apps, including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and now Prime Video. Today, the day has finally come as the aforementioned software is available for all Apple TV 4 users as well as those with an Apple TV 3. It's also fully compatible with the Apple TV 4K. If the app doesn't automatically come up, try searching "Amazon Prime Video" in the iTunes search bar. In addition to licensed movies and TV shows, Prime Video offers a lineup of original movies and series from Amazon Studios, as well as access to 140 channel subscriptions in the USA and 95 channels in the U.K., Germany and Austria.
Amazon still has streaming battles to fight, however, with Googleannouncing this week that it will pull YouTube support from Amazon's Fire TV platform entirely from 1 January 2018.
The standoff was in the news yesterday as it emerged Google had blocked access to YouTube from the Amazon Echo Show and the Fire TV.
Quick resolution by appellate courts would allow the Supreme Court to hear and decide the issue this term, by the end of June. Those orders were temporary measures, he wrote, while the proclamation was the product of extensive study and deliberation.
Gutierrez also revealed how he got a text from his son saying he can't leave the school as they are going on lockdown. The Bethel School District confirmed via a tweet the victims shot were indeed students from the school.
Facebook has launched a stand-alone mobile app that allows minors to communicate with their parents and parent-approved friends. Balkam, a member of Facebook's advisory committee, said Facebook has been grappling with its under-aged users for a long time.
Mourinho joked Arsenal's medical team had performed an "amazing" feat by turning Lacazette "from a no to a complete 90 minutes". City have won 14 of 15 Premier League this season, drawing the other , and all five Champions League group games.
Para ello se volverán a reunir el próximo 15 de diciembre con el objetivo "de lograr un acuerdo definitivo", según Medina. Además de Timoteo Zambrano , Luis Florido , Enrique Márquez , Gustavo Velásquez y Luis Carlos Padilla .
Wellington Management Group LLP grew its position in shares of Twenty-First Century Fox by 12.3% during the 1st quarter. According Reuters and Bloomberg, Twenty First Century Fox is getting closer to a deal to sell off many of its assets.
Now Apple has flipped the switch meaning all United States users can begin using the Square Cash and Venmo competitor. Reuters/Stephen LamAn attendee checks out a new iPhone X during an Apple launch event in Cupertino, California, U.S.
Last month, Trump suggested he was going to be named Time Person of the Year again, but that he turned it down. Merkel was the fourth woman to be named Time's Person of the Year (formerly "Man of the Year").
Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat he has nicknamed "Pocahontas" for her claim to have Native American heritage. The Trump administration can resize an existing national monument thanks to a provision in The Antiquities Act of 1906.
On Saturday, Spencer finally met his opponent in person when he flew to her home state of Florida to pay a visit. Butler then chose to bring the two together, coordinating the meeting and flying down to Florida with Sleyon.
Boston Companies Make Survey's Best Places to Work List
Without further ado, here are the top 10 tech companies to work for in the US , along with what some employees say about them. Launched in 2008, Glassdoor now has reviews and insights for approximately 700,000 companies in more than 190 countries.
New year will likely bring higher gas prices
The most expensive gas price averages in Georgia were in Savannah at $2.39 per gallon, Atlanta at $2.36 and Brunswick at $2.36. Gas prices in the Meadville area dropped in the past week but the average price remains above the state average.
Yanquis eligen a Aaron Boone como su nuevo manejador
El abuelo de Boone , Ray, jugó como pelotero de cuadro de 1948 a 1960 y fue elegido en dos ocasiones al Juego de Estrellas. Su padre, Bob, fue receptor de 1972 a 1990 y llegó cuatro veces al Clásico de Verano.
Padres among finalists for Shohei Ohtani
They spoke on condition of anonymity because not all teams had announced whether they were in or out. Just know that when/if you play at Yankee Stadium, we're going to let you hear about it.
Otamendi colaboró con un gol en la victoria del City
En el West Ham , que ocupa la penúltimam posición con sólo 10 unidades, jugaron Pablo Zabaleta y Manuel Lanzini. Sumando todas las competiciones, los " citizens " acumulan en la temporada 20 triunfos y dos empates.


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Vanessa Randall of Wayne made her prom dress out of 3,000 gum wrappers.
WAYNE — Walking into the gym on prom night with a girl on his arm draped in a chewing-gum-wrapper dress was definitely different.
Max Pistner, a Maranacook Community High School senior, said he thought it was "very cool" that his girlfriend, Vanessa Randall, made her prom dress out of 3,000 gum wrappers.
Randall, a 17-year-old senior from Wayne, started collecting Wrigley gum wrappers three years ago to make the dress. Friends, relatives and co-workers saved wrappers for her.
Pistner, who lives in Manchester, said he was just glad she got the dress done in time. She started sewing it together only a week before their recent prom.
Randall said she reinforced the dress with duct tape inside along the edges and used elastic braids around the straps and collar and in between some of the chains down the back so she could easily slip into the dress.
She came up with the design after drawing sketches all year.
"I came up with how it was going to look like the week before the prom," she said. "The theme of the prom was Japanese, so I was inspired by that in making the collar and flower pattern around the middle and back."
Her father, David Randall, an artist and sculptor, said his daughter got the idea from an article she read about a Lewiston girl who made her prom dress out of Starburst candy wrappers.
"We had that newspaper article on the refrigerator. That was the inspiration for it," he said. "Vanessa wanted to do something different and came up with the gum wrappers. She was really enthusiastic about the whole thing. My only concern was that she wasn't going to get it done in time, but she kept at it."
"She has a lot of creative energy and uses it in a great artistic way," said her mother, Ellen Randall. "She is following her dad's footsteps in creating art."
She said her daughter enrolled in a yearlong internship program in Germany, where she hopes to study art. Last summer, she studied fashion design under the auspices of the Early College program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Vanessa said she will continue to fold gum wrappers into chains and turn them into her own designs, possibly one day to profit from her work.
"I have some extra that I was thinking of making corsages out of and accessories like purses," she said. "I might be able to sell them on the Internet."
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As cloud service providers compete for a growing slice of the healthcare market, Amazon Web Services rolled out a new tool to help healthcare and life science companies manage their data. Called Amazon HealthLake, it aggregates a company’s data across disparate formats into one location, where it is standardized so it can be easily searched and structured.
The goal is to make it easier for companies to search, perform analytics and run machine learning on their health data.
“There has been an explosion of digitized health data in recent years with the advent of electronic medical records, but organizations are telling us that unlocking the value from this information using technology like machine learning is still challenging and riddled with barriers,” Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS’ vice president of Amazon machine learning, said in a news release. “With Amazon HealthLake, healthcare organizations can reduce the time it takes to transform health data in the cloud from weeks to minutes so that it can be analyzed securely, even at petabyte scale.”
Healthcare companies generate huge volumes of information, including patients’ family history, medications and diagnoses. But most of this data is unstructured, stored in different locations, and difficult to match together.
Amazon’s service aggregates this information and stores it in a FHIR format, as well as tags each piece of clinical information and indexes it into a timeline view. The company says it can be configured in such a way that it meets HIPAA compliance requirements.
Some of AWS’ users include 3M, Anthem, Pfizer, and Cerner — which notably turned down a deal from Google to pick AWS as its cloud provider last year. Epic Systems, which had been pursuing an integration with Google Cloud, told its customers earlier this year that it would focus on AWS or Microsoft Azure instead, after Google’s work with Ascension drummed up privacy concerns.
That said, Google Cloud has still been putting pressure on the competition, rolling out several new features, including a system that uses natural language processing to review unstructured medical text. And it also has shared plans to develop more tools for virtual visits, as indicated by its recent investment in telehealth company Amwell.
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CHINA’S GLOBAL PUSH - WHY NOW?
Page 1: China's Global Push - Why Now? (The View from Detroit).
Page 2: Electric • Autonomous • Ride-Sharing • New Deals
"What were the conversations like back in your China headquarters that led to the decision to build up operations here in the United States?"
That's the question Automotive News editor Dave Versical put to a panel of Chinese companies, at the first-ever China Genius Series event in Detroit last week.
David Wang, EVP at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors: "At a certain point, we understood that to win major contracts with global OEMs, we needed a global presence ourselves. Otherwise, we would be limited, competing only in the China market."
Today, Yanfeng operates in 110 locations in 20 countries, including 9 sites in the United States. The company employs 33,000 people worldwide and supplies most major OEMs, including the Detroit Three.
Yanfeng is not alone. There are now more than 60 - that's right, 60 - Chinese automotive suppliers in the US. They make tires, glass, airbags, suspensions systems, batteries, drive trains and steering systems. While heavily concentrated in Michigan, you can also find them in Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and South Carolina.
Chinese carmakers? They are present in the US too, even if their products are not yet visible on American roads. A total of 11 Chinese automakers have set up advanced R&D centers in California and Michigan to prepare future products for global markets.
Leading names include Geely, Great Wall, Guangzhou Automotive, NIO, Byron and BYD.
Chinese firms are hiring top US and European talent to develop good-looking electric, autonomous and connected vehicles. One example: Swedish designer Pontus Fontaeus appeared in Detroit to introduce us to Guangzhou Automotive's Entranz concept car.
(Photo: The Entranz is an autonomous electric six-seat crossover being sculpted at GAC's design center in Los Angeles.)
There is of course, one more giant force pushing Chinese companies overseas. The massive PRC market has turned soft, sales in China declined last year for this first time in almost 30 years. Demand will fall again in 2019. Chinese automakers and suppliers understand they need access to global markets for that vital oxygen called growth.
What does this all mean for us in America? Chinese auto investments into the US are creating enormous opportunities for a range of American companies. The Chinese definitely need local expertise from dealers, banks, tech firms, engineering firms, insurance companies. legal advisers, network planners and car maintenance and service centers.
One more thing for today: My colleagues and I at ZoZo Go would like to say "thank you" to the many subscribers to this newsletter who joined the China Genius Series last week in Detroit. More than 400 people registered, far surpassing our expectations.
We will be working with the Automotive News to host more quality China Genius Series gatherings in the coming months.
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ELECTRICS • AUTONOMOUS • RIDE-SHARING• NEW DEALS
>> Record Sales in 2018. Pure electric and plug-in hybrid sales soared to 1.26 million last year, up 62% compared to 2017. Pure electrics accounted for more than 80% of the total.
China New Energy* Vehicle Sales (*Battery Electric & Plug-In Hybrid):
2019: 1.5M (f)
Takeaway: China made more electric vehicles in 2018 than all other countries combined. A couple of key drivers: 1. Government subsidies, quotas, rebates and even purchase mandates. 2. Chinese consumer appetite for (and acceptance of) low-range, low-priced electric commuter vehicles.
>> Guangzhou Automotive (GAC). President Yu Jun introduced the Entranz autonomous-electric car at the Detroit auto show last week. The vehicle was developed by GAC's Los Angeles-based design team.
Takeaway: GAC still plans to make the GS8, the gasoline-powered three-row SUV, their first product for the American market. Showing the all-electric and autonomous Entranz Concept in Detroit is meant to impress American media and consumers with GAC's enhanced tech capabilities.
Whenever large amounts of money travel fast, corruption is a sure companion.
>> Roadstar.ai Dismissed co-founder and Chief Scientist Zhou Guang amidst charges of manufacturing fake data and accepting kickbacks from partner companies.
Takeaway: Obviously not a good sign when the Chief Scientist is making up numbers. In May 2018, Roadstar.ai made headlines after securing $130 million in Series A funding led by Shenzhen Capital Group and Wu Capital.
>> DJI. The world's largest maker of drones, DJI Technology, says it lost $150 million stemming from pervasive corruption within the firm. Some 40 people are under investigation.
Takeaway: DJI Technology’s 2018 revenues surpassed $3 billion. DJI controls about 70% of the global consumer drone market. The company expects to IPO in 2019. May the buyers beware.
>> Didi. China's leading ride-hailing company prepares for a blockbuster IPO in 2019 valued between $75 and $80 billion.
Takeaway: Didi lost more than $1 billion in 2018, beset by hefty ride subsidies. Its image was also deeply tarnished by safety lapses that led to the murder of two female passengers last year. Didi still stands by its expectation to be valued at $80 billion at the time of its initial public offering this year. Let the other investors pile in first, methinks.
>> Evergrande/NEVS: Real estate giant Evergrande is investing $930 million, a 51% stake in NEVS, the Swedish-based electric car maker, formerly Saab. Evergrande also owns a sizeable stake in financially-challenged Faraday Future.
>> Magna/BJEV: China's leading EV maker, Beijing EV, has entered into an engineering joint venture with Magna International. Beijing EV sold 158,000 vehicles in 2018, up 53% YoY, to lead the industry. The new JV will engineer its first EV for Beijing EV in 2020 and for for other companies in the following years.
Takeaway: When I saw Magna CEO Don Walker speak at least week's Automotive News World Congress, he confirmed that our global future will be "both electric and autonomous." That Magna is establishing an EV engineering center in China reveals where that future starts.
This news just in: Magna and Waymo are tying up to build autonomous vehicles in Michigan. Could there be a Magna-BJEV-Waymo venture in our near future?


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Bangalore-based Connovate Technology Pvt Ltd, which provides a low-powered Bluetooth device Gecko that can add gesture control to smartphones, has raised more than $54,000 from Indiegogo crowd-funding platform. Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak also contributed. Connovate was founded in 2012 by Bah...


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Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 release has been a hot topic for months, with many rumours suggesting it will be a minor update. However, new reports have emerged recently, indicating that Apple is planning significant changes to the Wallet and Find My apps, as shared by MacRumors.
According to reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, the Apple Wallet app could receive updates to its user interface. Gurman even compared iOS 17 to iOS 15, as it will focus on updates to core system apps, instead of introducing revolutionary new changes or features.
In addition to Wallet, Apple might also be looking to improve ‘Find My’ as part of a broader push for location-related features. Further, while Apple is reportedly working on introducing sideloading to iOS 17, which would allow users to install apps outside of the App Store, as part of the Digital Markets Act.
Moving on to wearables, Gurman said that “watchOS 10 will be the most significant update to watchOS since its introduction.” Gurman does not expect the core WatchOS design to change, but Apple might introduce new ways to use and interact with the system.
Another rumour making the rounds since October suggests that Apple is working on a new version of Messages. According to the report, the app might receive a new “home area” along with chat rooms, video clips, and AR chat features. While the rumour is somewhat sketchy, it’s worth keeping an eye on as we learn more about iOS 17 in the coming months.
Overall, it seems that iOS 17 will bring some significant changes to the Wallet and Find My apps, along with potential updates to the Messages and updates to WatchOS 10. While we’ll have to wait for more information to be sure, it’s clear that Apple is working hard to make its mobile operating system even better for users.


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The fashion and style director of W Magazine was given an honor by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the fashion industry on Thursday.
The American heritage footwear brand added its eighth store, opened this month in the Austrian capital, and launched a women’s line in September.
The goal of a new curriculum and app is to ensure that students learn how material choices, sourcing and manufacturing would impact the environment.
The license will start January 2018 and run for five years, until the end of December 2022.
The artistic program for the 2017-18 two-year period will be curated by Milan’s contemporary art center Peep-Hole.
Retailer’s profits slip while gross sales rose 5 percent in the 12 months ended Jan. 31.
Shulman recorded her day-to-day thoughts during British Vogue’s centenary year.
FTSE MIB in Milan is the only market to make gains.
The “Kill Bill” star will represent Jimmy Choo, one of three partners for the store’s holiday windows alongside David Yurman and Bonpoint.
The 2,000-square foot store spans two floors in a building that dates from the early 1900s.
The designer gathered an array of contributors, from Florence Welch and Madonna to Annie Leibovitz and Hari Nef.
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Boost Mobile Racing powered by Erebus has teased their brand new livery ahead of the official unveiling next week.
The teaser also confirms increased support from Pedders Suspension & Brakes, and the start of a new relationship with Southern Cross Truck Rentals.
Pedders first partnered with the team back in 2020 and the extended deal is part of a bigger motorsports strategy, with Pedders also the Official Control Damper and Official Suspension Partner of the Supercars Championship.
Pedders Suspension & Brakes Managing Director Scott Pedder said they were excited to extend and expand on their partnership with the Melbourne-based squad.
“Our Australian owned franchise operation is a proud supporter of Australian motor racing and Australian manufacturing,” he said.
“Motorsport is part of our brand’s DNA. “We’re competitive by nature. Our lessons learned on the race-track are lessons we integrate into the design and manufacture of our great range of products. We enjoy enhancing our customers’ vehicles to make them perform, carry loads and tow better and this is how we improve the customer experience…by racing.”
We’ve really enjoyed the first two years of our partnership with Erebus Motorsport, both on and off the race-track. Erebus had some fantastic results in 2021 and we can’t wait to go racing with Shannen, Barry, Will, Brodie and the whole team in 2022 and beyond.”
Erebus Managing Director Shannen Kiely is proud to be expanding their partnership with Pedders.
“Pedders have been a fantastic partner over the last two seasons and together we have been able to really see our partnership grow and strengthen, particularly last year,” Kiely said.
“We are very proud to expand our partnership with Pedders and equally as excited to welcome Southern Cross Truck Rentals to our team also.”
Southern Cross Truck Rentals provides high quality vehicles for hire, including utes, vans, buses, and a large fleet of trucks and semi-trailers.
“It’s not just about winning on the track, but also off the track, and we are proud to partner with Southern Cross Truck Rentals,” Kiely said.
“SCTR stands out from their competitors and has what it takes to keep your business moving across the Eastern seaboard.”
The teaser also highlights white features that are a step away from the team’s traditional black base.
The team will reveal both its Commodores this Monday, one day before they hit track at Winton for pre-season testing.


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More than 2/3 councils do not appear to ask for the correct form of consent under current privacy laws, according to data from the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).
The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) have also discovered over 950 advertising cookies embedded on councils’ benefits webpages across the country.
These cookies are small text files that track people on the internet, enabling third-party sites to target advertising.
During the research, the LDRS found high targeted adverts on benefits pages such as high-interest credit cards, Black Friday deals, sports cars with features for disabled people and private funeral care plans.
These benefits web pages will be used by people seeking advice about state financial support.
As of October 2019, Milton Keynes Council had 25 advertising cookies active on the website homepage, and 1 advertising cookie on the benefits page. The Council has a pop up asking for active consent.
A spokesperson for MK Council commented: “We’ve had to make over £165m of cuts and to offset that we look at ways of boosting income. As a council we take our responsibilities about personal data seriously which is why we seek informed consent about how we manage our website. The cookies do not hold any personal information, and we do not sell or provide data to third parties.”
South Northamptonshire Council and East Northamptonshire Council, on the other hand, have 1 advertising cookie on the homepage and 1 advertising cookie on the benefits page. They do not ask users for consent.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), an independent body set up to uphold information rights, said the setting of non-essential cookies without consent would be illegal.
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HERTFORDSHORE, England — ElectraStim has released a survey focusing on the sexual desires of those who use electrostimulation sex toys.
The anonymous research included sample answers from 106 participants from the company’s social media and newsletter marketing.
Males represented 72 percent of participants, indicating that men were more interested in the shock products as only 19 percent of the respondents were female.
Nearly 57 percent of participants were interested in vaginal toys, possibly showing a good proportion of electro sex fans buying toys for a female partner.
Also canvassed was futuristic sex tech that accounted for the biggest proportion of toys mentioned in the survey. ElectraStim said tech geeks are consciously looking for the next thing. Nearly 18 percent of participants said their dream sex toy purchase was a work of science fiction. The top sci-fi fantasy toy was a sex robot, with just over 11 percent wishing for their own android sex partner or cyber dominatrix. Next up was virtual reality sex, with Oculus Rift and Star Trek’s Holodeck checked as perfect platforms.
The research also found that with developments in teledildonics moving quickly, it won’t be long until fully immersive porn with the likes of Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear emerging.
Sex machines took the number two spot for the most popular dream toys with 16 percent wanting to own one. The Sybian was the most checked brand.
Other findings revealed that most people enjoyed one-on-one time with a sex toy, with 79 percent saying they always or often use sex toys when masturbating. Slightly fewer participants shared toys always or often with a partner at 74 percent.
The most popular fantasy desired was bondage, with 75 percent of participants itching to tie up their partners, while anal play took second place with 73 percent.
The least popular fantasies were cyber/virtual sex at 24 percent, and phone sex at just under 20 percent, compared to the 46 percent who were interested in pleasuring a partner using an app-controlled device.
ElectraStim said that it seems those who enjoy sex tech prefer sharing their kinks with a partner. The lower interest in cyber and virtual sex indicates that most participants would rather opt for the human touch when it comes to play.


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Walmart will begin the third phase of its Black Friday event next Wednesday.
According to Walmart, a first round of deals will be offered at Walmart.com on Wed., Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. ET, followed by another round of online bargains at 12 a.m. ET on Friday. In store deals will begin Friday at 5 a.m. local time.
Here are the five best deals:
AirPods Pro at $169 (was $249): This is the lowest price ever seen for the Apple AirPods Pro. The AirPods will be available online only starting at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Samsung 65” Class 7000 4K Smart TV for $478 (was $528): This is the first 65″ Samsung 4K TV for under $500. If you’re in the market for a massive TV, this is one of the top deals for Black Friday 2020. If you need a bigger TV, a Vizio 70-inch Class 4K UHD SmartCast TV will be the same price at $478. Both TVs will be available online only starting at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Apple Watch Series 3 with GPS for $119 (was $179): This is an all-time low price for the Apple Watch Series 3. The watch will be available online only starting at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Nintendo Switch with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for $299 (special buy): Due to demand, it’s not easy to find a deal on the Nintendo Switch – but Walmart has a great offer for Black Friday. If you purchase the Switch at the regular price ($299), you will receive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ($59.99 value) for free. The Nintendo Switch will be available online only starting at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
The Pioneer Woman 25-piece Cookware Set for $69 (was $129.99): If you’re still searching for Christmas gifts, this cookware set is a great option. The set comes in three colors turquoise, red, and gray. The cookware set will be available online only starting at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Some of the other deals include:
- Hotel Style 1200 Thread Count Sheet Set for $25 (special buy)
- Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset for $299
- onn. Medium Party Speaker for $50 (was $79, $29 savings)
- Razor Electric Scooter for $69 (was $98, $29 savings)
- Select Video Games for $15-$30 (special buy)
- Shark Self-Empty Navigation Robot Vacuum for $329 (was $399, $70 savings)
- Xbox Series X Console for $499
All Walmart stores will open at 5 a.m. local time on Black Friday. The company said it will limit the number of customers allowed in its stores and will promote physical distancing.
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On March 4, 2021, we posted “Are Your Baby’s Drained Carrots Safe? Considerations for Manufacturers. Several plaintiffs had filed class actions in jurisdictions across the country alleging that baby food contained heavy metals and toxins and that the manufacturers had violated state laws on consumer protection. The United States Food and Drug Administration has not set allowable levels of heavy metals in baby foods, or requirements for testing and labeling. Some plaintiffs wanted the lawsuit to be part of an MDL, but the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced on June 7, 2021 that it would not consolidate the baby food lawsuits. In the presentation on consolidation, manufacturers and some parent groups spoke out against MDL because the issues were specific to cases making consolidation inappropriate. For example, there were issues regarding suppliers, testing practices, quality controls, selection of ingredients and additives, packaging, advertising, marketing and labeling. For now, cases will proceed on an individual basis.
As a result, manufacturers will defend their respective practices in multiple jurisdictions across the country. This gives everyone the opportunity to explain why their own standards are appropriate and have been followed. However, manufacturers will need to monitor other manufacturers’ lawsuits for competitor arguments regarding appropriate ingredients, testing requirements, labeling, advertising, etc. Until there is uniformity in the rules, manufacturers should be aware of the positions of competitors and how juries react in different places.
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Raise a glass: Hodges Funeral Home opens wine cellar for mourners
There will come a day when someone will walk into Hodges Funeral Home, do a double take and wonder if they are in the right place.
They will look to their left and see a dark, sexy room with leather arm chairs and glass-topped wine barrels for tables. They’ll walk in a little further and whip their head back and forth, looking for a bartender.
Instead, they might bump into Seth Minso, funeral director and general manager. After assuring them that they are indeed inside a funeral parlor, he will have to explain the significance of a posh wine cellar at a place of death, his touch of nightlife for the afterlife.
Crews began remodeling the North Naples funeral home at 525 111th Ave N. in October, gutting a so-called community room to make way for the new wine room. It’s a space where families can congregate for a death-adjacent catered reception, a modern substitute for an hour-long sobfest on wooden church pews.
“More and more people were coming to us wanting to do celebrations of life instead of funerals,” Minso said. “And, you know, Naples has a lot of wine lovers.”
When he first pitched the idea, a few people were apprehensive.
“I had some people giving me high fives and some people saying, ‘Why would you do that?’” Minso said.
Some funeral homes have served coffee for years. In fact, Starbucks opened a store inside a South Carolina funeral home a couple of years back. But having been in the business for 25 years, Minso said he’s never seen a funeral home with a wine cellar. It’s a niche in the market he expects to be quite popular.
“People are coming in and saying, ‘That’s what I want,’” he said.
The wine cellar provides “a completely different atmosphere,” echoed Nicole Partin, another funeral director at Hodges.
“Nobody likes death. Nobody likes going to the funeral home,” she said. “This is a more relaxing environment.”
A generation of “unchurched people” are driving the trend toward celebration of life ceremonies instead of traditional funerals, said Bob Arrington, a Tennessee-based funeral director who serves on the executive board of the National Funeral Directors Association.
“They don’t really do a lot of ceremony and things on a weekly basis as, say, our parents and grandparents did,” Arrington said. “They don’t want to talk about death and have the quote-unquote ‘death experience.’ They don’t want to see the body, they don’t want to see the casket. They don’t want to go through what they consider the morbid program of the past.”
Hodges Funeral Home now has flat-screen TVs, a tranquil sunset mural and a rehearsal dinner-esque setup in a front room to accommodate such clients. There are short-term plans to swap the church pews for smaller, lounge-type seating areas and long-term plans to construct a replica of the Naples Pier for a serene, waterfront cremation garden.
Minso said Thelma Hodges and her late husband, Earl, envisioned their funeral home on the cutting edge of the industry.
“They were thrilled with the idea (of the wine cellar),” Minso said. “Their pioneering spirit certainly lives through in this.”
So far, the wine room is so new it has only been used for a handful of internal events. Families can rent the room and have a catered reception with wine service and their choice of music.
While some people can’t get over the stigma of a wine cellar in a funeral home, Minso said the feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive. He expects the response, like a fine wine, will get better with age.
“When I started working in funeral homes, everything was traditional,” he said. “People don’t want that anymore. People want to be remembered, people want to be celebrated. They want laughter. It’s a very healthy transition.”
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David Cecil, Johnny Lightning Strikes Again co-owner and director of strategy, was interviewed by Fox 4 News in Kansas City last week and asked to share his thoughts on retail stores using new technology to ‘spy’ on their customers by tracking their movements in their stores.
The point David makes is that while the technology is new, the technique certainly is not. Walk in to any store with a sales staff and you can bet someone has their eye on you to see what you’re looking at and what you might be interested in purchasing. The fact that cameras could be used to do what people have been doing for years is interesting, but probably doesn’t rise to the point of being a violation of privacy.
That said, everything feels like a violation of privacy when companies aren’t open about what information they’re gathering and how they’re using it, which is something we advise our clients all the time.
Check out the story at Fox4KC.com and let us know what you think!


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Following the announcement earlier this week that the BBC is to go ahead with the conversion of its HD TV trial into a full service, it's emerging that increases in the spectrum available for digital television could bring HD services from the 'big four' terrestrial broadcasters to Freeview as soon as 2009.
On Tuesday the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five announced what they called a 'non-binding memorandum of understanding' to launch HD services between 2009 and 2012. Now broadcast regulator Ofcom has revealed proposals to carry out upgrade work on the digital terrestrial television system, which will be completed by late 2009.
The upgrade, which Ofcom says could more than double the capacity available on the Freeview platform, will allow new services, not all of them HD. But viewers wanting to see Freeview HD will need to buy a new set-top box as well as an HD-compatible TV.


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Digital Currency News: The government will introduce ‘The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021’ in the winter session of Parliament.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government has no plans to promote cryptocurrencies in India.
- He had earlier said that the crypto bill would be introduced in the Parliament after the cabinet approval.
The government has held extensive discussions on the legal framework for cryptocurrencies in India.
Digital Currency News: Cryptocurrency is going to tighten its grip soon.
The government will introduce ‘The Cryptocurrency & Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021’ in the winter session of Parliament.
The new cryptocurrency bill will empower regulators and government agencies.
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and tax department will be able to view KYC data of investors of crypto exchanges.
The Economic Times quoted two people in a report as saying, “Under the new rule, cryptocurrency exchanges will have to share KYC data with the government, which will mainly include details of their investors.
Uniform KYC Process Will Be Implemented
Business Daily quoted sources as saying that, the new cryptocurrency framework will implement a uniform KYC process that every exchange will have to follow.
At present, different cryptocurrency exchanges have different KYC procedures.
Many in the government fear that many cryptocurrency investors are operating accounts not only on the platforms, but also with the many banks and NBFCs where their money is deposited.
It is to be known that the winter session of Parliament started from 29 November.
As a pilot digital currency can launch RBI
Government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expressed concern over several times Kriptokrensi.
In the first quarter of the next financial year, the central bank may launch a digital currency on a pilot basis.
It is noteworthy that the digital currency of the central bank- CBDC (CBDC) will be a digital form of legal tender, which is similar to fiat currency.
We will be able to use CBDC as normal rupee-for-money.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das had said that soft launch of CBDC is expected by December.
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Mobile blockchain role playing game Knight Story is gaining attention since it launched late last year, causing significant growth in the user base and trading volume. Knight Story has been attracting a growing number of users per day, while the trading volume is going up as well. The idle battle role playing game currently attracts 725 users per day, with a trading volume over 5500 dollars per week.
In Knight Story players need to make their knights stronger to defeat waves of enemies. Since this week the game also introduced a boss mechanic, in which players need to help each other to defeat a very strong enemy. Not all items are on the blockchain. Players can move items to the blockchain by buying and using a special token.
This way the developers also make some money from the items offered on public marketplaces, like OpenSea. Each of these items have been tokenized using a MyKI ticket. These cost somewhere between 0.29 and 0.36 EUR. I’m currently selling a decent Titanium set for the archer character. (In case you’re interested)
On OpenSea there are currently 3790 token holders, selling almost 19 thousand items. The average item sells for 0.04 ETH, which would be approximately 6 dollars. Every day more than one thousand items are being sold on Opensea.
At the same time the Google Play Store signals there are over five thousand installs of the game, and then we’re not even counting downloads through the iOS App Store. Even within the current install base there’s room for growth.
Knight Story has seen a steady growth in the new year. Its daily audience increased from four hundred to over seven hundred players. A new boss mechanic has players coming back for more, while the team has plans to introduce more enemies, player characters and bosses in upcoming updates.
EOS Knights origins
Knight Story is basically an enhanced port of the EOS-based blockchain game EOS Knights. In this game loot drops from enemies which are the resources to create armor and weapons. These items can in turn be upgraded and ultimately tokenized and sold on the marketplace.
Biscuit Labs is also supposed to bring the game to the Tron blockchain. In October the developer and the Tron Foundation announced a partnership. Biscuit Labs received an undisclosed amount of money to bring the game to the Tron blockchain. When this will happen and whether it will happen within the same game is not yet known.
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In a break from Brexit, the UK government is set to host the first large-scale global summit on electric cars.
The summit takes place in Birmingham, both a hub for the UK’s car industry (electric and otherwise) and a region troubled by air pollution. One of the focuses of the event will be how zero emission vehicles can tackle both air pollution and climate change.
It may or may not work out for the UK, given the precarious position of the UK’s car industry in the Brexit haggling, but the fact a beleaguered government has chosen to invest political capital in talking about electric cars shows how the industry has changed over the past decade.
Here are five things you need to know:
1) Some people are finally buying electric cars
For years electric cars were more of an idea than a reality. They still account for a very small percentage of the global car fleet but sales are now growing rapidly, as clean energy installations did a decade ago.
In 2010 there were a few thousand electric cars on the road worldwide. In 2017 the number surpassed 3 million and rose to 4 million six months later. More than half of global electric car sales were in China, followed by Europe (20%) and the US (17%) in 2017. In the UK sales reached a new record in August – spurred on by higher petrol prices.
2) Government policies are driving the rise of electric car sales
Various key countries have announced plans to stop the sale of cars that rely on fossil fuels. Norway set out the earliest ban on all fossil fuel cars by 2025. Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia have put 2030 as the target year and India is reportedly mulling something in the same time-frame. France, the UK, and Sri Lanka committed to phasing out the sales of ICE vehicles by 2040, and Sweden by 2045. China has reportedly proposed a ban – but it is yet to be confirmed.
Whilst these policies look impressive, they may not mean a great deal – depending on how they are implemented. In the short term, most electric cars are sold in cities and city plans to phase out fossil fuels – or limit diesel emissions – are arguably a bigger driver of sales.
In 2017 12 cities announced phase-out dates for gasoline and diesel cars. In 2016 four major cities introduced diesel car access restrictions. And 14 mayors signed the Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets Declaration committing them to ensure all busses are zero emission by 2025 and cities have zero emission zones by 2030.
Finally, and crucially, direct subsidies still play a crucial role in electric car sales – as they did in the rise of renewable energy.
China, Norway, the US, UK, Germany, and Sweden all offer some kind of financial incentive for electric car ownership. In Denmark, meanwhile, electric car sales dropped by 60% in 2017, after the government announced it would phase out tax exemptions.
Even more directly many governments, including Canada, France, China, and India are simply buying lots of electric cars whilst cities such as London move to bring in electric taxis.
3) People drive electric cars in places where they can charge them
The growth of electric cars depends on the availability of charging points. Norway and the Netherlands have ten times more chargers per capita than the average market – and a lot more electric cars.
Getting charging points in place, however, has been pretty slow. New public-private partnerships between utilities, local and national governments – and moves by oil companies to put chargers on forecourts – could change that, but so far it’s pretty piecemeal.
In Europe, the UK announced a £400 million investment fund for charging, in the US
New York Power Authority released a $250 million statewide EV charging plan and California Public Utility Commission approved a $738 million worth of EV charging projects for three big utilities.
The Chinese government plans to build 4.8 million charging points by 2022 with $1.9 billion of investment.
4) Manufacturers are going to offer lots of electric cars (and petrol and diesel ones too)
Car manufacturers are rushing to introduce electric models across their range – much as they once did so in Europe for diesel.
The number of EV models will increase from 155 in 2017 to 349 by 2025, according to estimates by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). Major auto companies will release long-range EV models between now and 2025, and nearly half of the launches will be SUVs.
That comes with significant investment, around $140.7 billion into electric vehicles by 2022 according to BNEF. The only catch? Only a few companies, such as Volvo, have committed to stop conventional cars and even they plan to continue to sell “mild hybrids” which are, essentially, more efficient petrol cars.
“We could, of course, have prioritized [fully electric cars], but we would then, of course, have cars that are difficult to charge for our customers,” is what Volvo’s international chief executive Håkan Samuelsson told Unearthed last year.
As for big investors like VW? They plan to have an electric option for each model, but petrol and diesel options will persist too.
5) Electric cars displace oil – but how much is debated and there is always coal to worry about
Bloomberg has forecast that electrification could displace 7.3 million barrels a day of transportation fuel by 2040. That is a significant amount – leading analysts to speculate that it could punch a big hole in the oil price, potentially driving down oil production.
However, it seems unlikely to be enough to reduce emissions from transport in line with preventing catastrophic climate change (we understand calculations on this are being carried out in various places).
That said, forecasts about clean energy and electric cars have a very often been wrong with BP, Exxon and Opec all recently revising their predictions of electric car demand. Bloomberg tends to be a trifle more optimistic (after all, they don’t have skin in the game) but it’s safe to say the numbers could change wildly depending, it seems, on such mundane issues as whether anyone can get their head around building a global and cross-car compatible charging infrastructure.
Once that is in place there is a final key factor: where the power comes from. China is the world’s largest market for electric cars and it is also investing heavily in renewable energy. However, coal remains a key power source and the latest data reported suggests China’s emissions are actually rising again.
Electric cars powered – even partially – on coal will not provide major benefits when it comes to climate change or air pollution.


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The biggest single sector responsible for the weak economy won’t surprise anyone. Residential investment is a startling 49 percent below what would be expected historically, accounting for $370billion in “missing” economic activity. This is what one would expect given that housing was a major trigger for the economic crisis.
It is the company’s first major new product in five years and consumer demand for the device is being closely watched by competitors and investors.The device needs an Apple iPhone to work fully, and analysts say the most likely pool of initial buyers will already have an Apple smartphone in their pockets.(Also see: Nearly 40 Percent iPhone Owners Interested in Buying Apple Watch: Poll)”We believe wearable technology will take off,” Michael Bell, vice president of Intel’s New Devices unit, said at a news conference with Tag Heuer at the Baselworld watch and jewellery fair.Intel struck partnerships with several consumer goods companies last year to develop smart wearable products, including eyewear brand Oakley, owned by Luxottica, watchmaker Fossil, and US fashion brand Opening Ceremony.”Tag Heuer’s decision to partner with technology companies to deliver a smartwatch . Will likely be the first of many similar deals,” Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, said.”With Apple Watch hitting the market it’s no longer viable for Swiss watchmakers to bury their heads in the sand. The unit of French luxury group Kering gave no details of pricing or launch timing.Some luxury executives remained sceptical about smartwatches, however.Marc Hayek, who heads Swatch Group watch brands Breguet, Jaquet Droz and Blancpain, joined the chorus of luxury executives alongside Hermes and Patek Philippe who said they had no plans to launch a smartwatch.”The Apple Watch is not a real watch but a consumer electronic,” he told Reuters in Basel on Thursday.Hayek forecast his three brands would enjoy a similar year in terms of sales growth to 2014, although trading in Hong Kong, one of his biggest markets, remained difficult.


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Apple’s iPad may have reached the market first, but ASUS and MSI are hot on their heels. ASUS chairman Jerry Shen has confirmed that the ASUS Eee Pad, the company’s Android-based tablet, will make its press debut at Computex 2010 in early June, with a commercial launch in Q3 2010 (more specifically, late July, at least according to component makers). Meanwhile, MSI are also ramping up to launch their tablet, the M Pad, in Q3, though they’re apparently watching to see response to the Eee Pad before deciding on precise shipments and marketing.
The ASUS Eee Pad will be based on NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset, and have features including USB connectivity, an integrated webcam and Adobe Flash support. Shih says the company have also “strengthened” the tablet’s industrial design, in response to feedback regarding the iPad.
Biggest drawback may be pricing. Shih reckons the Eee Pad will come in at NT$15,000-16,000 (US$479-510), though that’s apparently “after bundling with telecom carrier services.” Nonetheless, ASUS are expecting to ship 300,000 units by the end of the year.


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As announced since August, Puma is the new equipment manufacturer of Morocco. The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) no longer wanted to continue the collaboration with Adidas. And now opts for another German firm. On Wednesday, the new Atlas Lions jersey was made official.
This new jersey was presented Wednesday night at Morocco Mall Casablanca. The colors always remain the same; red and green. But, the design has changed anyway.
It is with this new jersey that Morocco will play the FIFA day of October.


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Good weather helps lift sales at JD Wetherspoon as Britons drink more pints in the sunshine
- Like-for-like sales rose 5.3 per cent in the eleven weeks to July 9
- Wetherspoon's chairman Tim Martin tells Remainers to 'put a sock in it'
Like-for-like sales rose 5.3 per cent in the eleven weeks to July 9 despite tough comparatives, with sales in the year to date up 3.9 per cent. However, shares in the FTSE 250 listed firm fell more than 1 per cent, or 11.5p, to 979p.
It comes as yesterday another pub chain, Young's, also attributed rising sales to the recent hot spell, with like-for-like pub revenue 8.6 per cent higher than last year.
'Put a sock in it': Wetherspoon's chairman, Brexit-backer Tim Martin
Wetherspoon's Brexit-backing chairman Tim Martin didn't miss the opportunity to use the trading statement to attack the press, businesses, politicians and other organisations that he claims have overstated the negative impact of Brexit on the UK economy.
He said: 'The majority of the public instinctively understands the government's bargaining dilemma. Yet the supposedly sophisticated CBI, the Financial Times, the Times and the other usual suspects are vociferous in their forecasts of trouble in the absence of a free trade deal. As a result, they are loading the dice hugely in favour of EU negotiators.
'The public's message to Carolyn 'We're all doomed' Fairbairn, head of the CBI, and other gloomsters is: put a sock in it. We'll do well with or without a free trade deal, so stop tying the hands of our negotiators, who are doing their best to achieve a respectable outcome.'
Despite his diehard Brexit stance, Martin last month announced Wetherspoon's biggest ever single investment will go into the European Union through the development of a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.
Slapping down Martin, a CBI spokesperson said: 'Rather than slinging mud, Mr Martin should know that all the major UK business groups have made clear the risks to the economy of leaving the EU without a deal.
'The prospect of multiple cliff edges - in tariffs, red tape and regulation - is already casting a long shadow over investment decisions for many firms in this country.'
'The CBI and the wider business community is committed to making a success of the negotiations and helping to secure the most ambitious and comprehensive free trade deal ever agreed.'
Wetherspoon said it was set to open 10 new pubs by the end of its financial year and to close or sold 38.
It also expects operating margins for the full year to come in between 7.6 per cent and 7.8 per cent, compared to 6.9 per cent in 2016.
Karl Burns, analyst at Investec, said: 'Despite the tough consumer backdrop, we believe JD Wetherspoon remains well positioned within the UK pub space, with its value proposition and well invested pub estate continuing to taking market share.'
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With the release of their new season earlier this month, Fortnite had announced that all proceeds up until April 3 would go directly to humanitarian relief for the war in Ukraine. As of today, they have officially raised $100 million.
Rumors of South Korea as the destination for MSI 2022 have now been confirmed
NAVI's captain, BoombI4, is going to miss at least the first games of the tournament due to COVID-19. The organization already found a sub.
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DAAC is taking the “show” on the road and encouraging everyone in the community to patronize their favorite area restaurants during the week of April 19-24, 2021.
The Decatur Area Arts Council is again unable to host an in-person version of its annual fundraising event Corks & Forks. Instead, the Arts Council will be taking the “show” on the road and encouraging everyone in the community to patronize their favorite area restaurants during the week of April 19-24, 2021.
Arts Council Executive Director Jerry Johnson explains, “We want to show our appreciation to the local restaurants that have offered up their signature dishes to our Corks & Forks guests over the past 20 years. We simply couldn't have done it without them.”
Of course, the Arts Council is not asking for a fee or donation from restaurants to be a part of the TOUR. Many have struggled due to COVID, so during the third week of April we're asking people to dine in, take out, or order delivery.
A few local restaurants have found themselves capable of offering to help the Arts Council during Corks & Forks “ON TOUR” Week. Some are offering special “Corks & Forks” menu items and others are even donating a percentage of the bill to benefit the Arts Council.
Also, in the spirit of past Corks & Forks events, the Arts Council is hosting an online auction and raffle with lots of prizes.
Look to the Arts Council website (DecaturArts.org), along with Facebook and Instagram posts and DAAC emails, to get involved. You'll find everything from a list of our restaurant partners to online auction and raffle details.
Thank you so much to our Corks & Forks “ON TOUR” sponsors: Staley Family Foundation and Alan & Beth Frigy.
“We look forward to seeing everyone at Corks & Forks again, but this year, getting folks to support our local restaurants is a great way to welcome springtime,” says Johnson.


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Naming celebration for Georgia Southern’s Parker College of Business recognizes growth of business programs
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BRIEF-Rocket Internet to sell its remaining 8.8% stake in Lazada to Alibaba for $276 mln
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AMSTERDAM, June 28 Dutch healthcare company Philips has agreed to buy U.S.-based Spectranetics Corp , a maker of devices to treat heart disease, for 1.9 billion euros ($2.16 billion) including debt, as it expands its image-guided therapy business.


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It’s one of the most competitive card games in the world… and finally, UNO has clarified the rules of the game on Twitter.
It comes after NBA All-Star Donovan Mitchell got into a “heated debate” with his family over the game — and reached out for an assist.
He tweeted “Do you have to say UNO out when you lay your last card in @realUNOgame???” Mitchell then went onto say “Heated debate rn with the fam.”
His tweet featured a voting pole, with nearly 57,000 Twitter users responding — 62 percent saying the answer is “yes.”
Well, the makers of the 49 year old game took it upon themselves to clarify the rule.
While calling "UNO Out" when you play your last card is a popular House Rule, it's not required.
🗣 UNO has spoken.
— UNO (@realUNOgame) November 24, 2020
There you have it, UNO has spoken… However, we reckon there’ll still be plenty of disagreements over this game


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TAG sees its ad tech verification program aimed at cleaning up digital advertising grow rapidly
The industry group formed to secure and weed out fraud in the digital advertising supply chain says it has seen a jump in companies interested in joining the program over the past few months.
More than 350 companies have now applied for verification registrations by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), with an application increase of more than 75 percent in just the past three months. Applicants represent 26 countries on six continents, the group said in a blog post Monday.
Applicants undergo a proprietary background check and review process driven by Dun & Bradstreet before they can be approved by TAG. Once approved, companies can be verified by other companies in the ecosystem by name or by their unique, persistent TAG-IDs in the TAG Registry.
“In less than three years, TAG has established itself as the preeminent global organization fighting crime and increasing transparency in digital advertising, and we are aggressively building out TAG’s staff and infrastructure to support our growing program and member needs,” said Mike Zaneis, CEO of TAG.
With the growth, TAG is adding staffing in several key roles. Michael Hahn, who serves as general counsel for the IAB, is joining TAG in that same capacity. Last month, TAG hired Bonnie Niederstrasser as to serve as director of policy and programs and Dominique Matthews as manager of operations and compliance.
TAG’s recent efforts include launching a tool to stop ads from showing on apps that pirate content and granting its first set of “Certified Against Malware” seals to nine ad tech companies.
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Virgin Money has signed its joint venture agreement with Aberdeen Standard Investments, including the conditional sale of 50 per cent of its asset management business for at least £40m.
An initial agreement in principle for the partnership was first announced in March last year, but a sale and purchase agreement for the investment and pensions joint venture has now been signed with the transaction expected to complete in Q2 2019.
The agreement will see ASI purchase 50 per cent of Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers Limited for an upfront cash payment of £40m and is expected to offer Virgin Money customers access to a broader range of funds and solutions at a "competitive cost".
Following the acquisition of Virgin Money by CYBG in October last year, the joint venture is expected to offer additional investment solutions to CYBG’s six million customers in due course.
David Duffy, chief executive of CYBG, said: "We are delighted to take the next step forward in our partnership between Virgin Money and Aberdeen Standard Investments, enabling us to provide innovative and attractive investment solutions through our national distribution.
"Using our brand and customer reach, combined with ASI’s clear asset management strengths we will be able to provide a truly compelling investment and pensions proposition to our retail customers."
Martin Gilbert, co-chief executive at Aberdeen Standard Investments, said: "The signing of the SPA that encompasses Virgin Money, Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank customers is an important milestone in progressing our joint venture with Virgin Money.
"The partnership offers a fantastic opportunity to develop a business that combines the best talents of Virgin Money and ASI.
"Most importantly, the joint venture will offer customers across the enlarged CYBG group, beyond Virgin Money’s existing customer base with investment solutions to help them achieve their long-term financial goals."
When the joint venture was initially announced last year it was met by mixed responses, with some branding it the result of increased regulatory pressure on the asset management industry.


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Famed tech investor Fred Wilson of New York’s Union Square Ventures has predicted that by 2020, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will no longer be the biggest tech company in the world. In fact, he doesn’t think it will even be in the top three biggest technology companies in terms of market capitalization.
At TechCrunch’s Disrupt Conference in New York City on Monday, Wilson said that the top three tech companies in 2020 will be Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and “one that we’ve never heard of.”
“I think that they’re too rooted to the hardware, and I think that hardware is increasingly becoming more a commodity. They don’t have anything in cloud to speak of, and the stuff they have in the cloud is largely not good. I just don’t think that they think about data and the cloud in the way they need to think about things,” Wilson said of Apple.
Wilson isn’t the only tech analyst feeling not so optimistic about Apple’s future. Earlier this year, Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes, a longtime Apple bull, downgraded Apple stock from Overweight to Equal Weight. “Frankly, we just couldn’t quite bring ourselves to use smart watches or TVs as reasons to raise numbers — nor were we fully convinced that these products could move the needle like new categories did in the old days,” wrote Reitzes. “As a result, we believe it is time to step aside, given a maturing smart phone market.”
Reitzes also believes that the company is simply relying too heavily on hardware and not giving enough thought to the cloud. He even went so far as to compare Apple to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), something that doesn’t exactly paint a rosy picture for the Cupertino, California-based company.


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It was a major move – but a short one – for Creative Impressions art gallery.
Formerly at 176 Rehoboth Ave., the gallery has moved across Second Street to take over the space that for more than 60 years was occupied by the Thunderbird Shop, 200 Rehoboth Ave. the Thunderbird Shop closed its doors earlier this month.
Manager Susan Korwek said the move gives the gallery more display space for artwork. The move was finalized March 22, and the gallery is slowly getting ready for summer; a new sign went up earlier this week.
Korwek said no major changes were made to the building, which has been largely the same since the 1920s, other than installing wall partitions to display artwork and removing the center counter area.
“It’s been very favorable,” Korwek said. “Our customers who have followed us, as well as customers who patronized Thunderbird, like what we’ve done with the space.”
Everything is now on one floor, Korwek said. “It opened up a lot of areas that customers did not realize we had art in,” she said.
Creative Impressions has been in Rehoboth since 1984, with a second location in Annapolis, Md. Korwek said the inventory won’t really change, although she can display more art.
“We wanted to have our customers who come every year see us in a new space. We were kind of excited to do that before season hit. For people who have never visited Rehoboth before, it’s kind of exciting to offer them a new spot,” Korwek said.
Creative Impressions is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. Korwek said during the summer, the gallery will be open seven days a week.


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Brent Knoll’s new temporary shop has been handed a financial boost to keep it open.
The Parish Council in Brent Knoll have been actively supporting the new emergency shop in the Village and have secured £2,000 in grants from both the Somerset Coronavirus recovery fund and Western Power.
Both of these grants will be used by the emergency shop steering group to develop the facility for the village during the emergency.
The Parish Council has also awarded grants totalling £600 to assist the project.
Owen Cullwick, Parish Council Clerk, told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “The Parish Council has been extremely supportive of the huge volunteering efforts in the village to help run the shop.”
He adds: “It is hoped that the continuing success may lead eventually to a permanent shop being reopened in the village.”


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On July 29, 2015, Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public as a free upgrade for eligible systems running Windows 7 and 8.1. Now, a year later, the Redmond, Wash., software giant is pulling the plug on the promotion.
Today is the last day for users to click on the Windows 10 upgrade icon that has inhabited the task bars of Windows users for nearly a year and download the update at no cost. That icon, which resembles the Windows logo, would splash reminders on users’ desktops, urging them to upgrade. Recently, it displayed a countdown clock, indicating that time was running out.
Not everyone was thrilled by Microsoft’s tactics.
Viewed by some as an aggressive move by Microsoft to switch users over to the new operating system, the company’s approach came under fire. Some PC owners, finding that their Windows systems had been forcibly upgraded, even filed suit against the company. Teri Goldstein was recently awarded $10,000 after Microsoft settled a lawsuit filed by travel agent from Sausalito, Calif., after an unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade rendered the PC she used to run her business inoperable.
Despite these stumbling blocks, Windows 10 has been generally well-received by technology experts and the general public alike.
Reviewers praised an updated user interface that respected the system’s software keyboard-and-mouse legacy while also accommodating tablets, two-in-one and other touch-enabled Windows devices. Experts also hailed Microsoft’s decision to bring back the Start menu, addressing one of the most divisive design choices the company made in developing Windows 8.
PC buyers and consumers have also jumped aboard. According to Microsoft, 350 million devices are running the operating system nearly a year after its release, a feat CEO Satya Nadella described as “the fastest adoption rate of any prior Windows release” during a July 19 earnings conference call. The vast majority of Microsoft’s enterprise customers (96 percent) are piloting the operating system, he added.
Of course, folks who miss out on the free upgrade offer will have to pay up.
“After July 29, you’ll be able to continue to get Windows 10 on a new device, or purchase a full version of Windows 10 Home for $119,” announced Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Windows and Devices group, in a May 5 blog post. Stepping up to Windows 10 Pro, with virtual machine, remote log-in support and other business-oriented features, costs $199.
Meanwhile, all eyes are on the highly anticipated release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which is just days away.
Due to arrive on Tuesday, Aug. 2, the update includes built-in support for the Bash Unix shell, an enhanced developer mode, Docker-compatible Hyper-V containers and other features intended to help make coders, IT pros and power users more productive while using the operating system. Consumers can look forward to a more capable Cortana digital assistant, improved digital inking and the Xbox Play Anywhere program with cross-play functionality (Xbox One and PC).


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Stock markets in the U.S. slumped badly Monday, notching some of their worst single-day declines of 2019, during a global market correction spurred by increasing anxiety about U.S.-China trade relations.
President Donald Trump has vowed to implement more tariffs on China. The nations are several months into a clash over trade.
Big tech was hit hard in the pullback. Netflix, Alphabet and Apple all shed between 4% and 5%, with social media firms Twitter, Facebook and Snap Inc. in slightly worse shape. As a hardware leader, Apple has been seen as one of the most vulnerable U.S. companies in the new China-U.S. environment.
Traditional media players fared a bit better but were still dinged, mostly falling by a couple of percentage points.
The yuan, China’s unit of currency, reached its lowest level in more than a decade. With the OK from the government, the People’s Bank of China allowed the yuan to fall. Trump blasted the move on Twitter as a “major violation” and “currency manipulation.”
As the yuan fell to less than seven per dollar, U.S. companies faced a bigger challenge operating in China as the net effect of the currency drop is that prices for U.S. goods increase.
Prior to the rough day on Wall Street, several stock markets across the world had also registered declines.
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Pic’s peanut butter has joined forces with Motion Sickness for a Facebook competition campaign running across New Zealand and Australia called ‘Pay it forward’, where Pic’s fans can do just that, nominate their friends who they feel deserve a jar of nutty goodness.
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The founders of The Social Club, a two-way market place where influencers can login to view brands and brands can login to view influencers was launched late last year and according to its founders, recently penned a partnership with Mish Guru to improve its offering for brands and influencers alike.
As the internet pulls audiences in all sorts of directions, and brands risk losing touch of their market, Motion Sickness Studio and Latch Digital have responded by creating The Social Club, a platform which aims to create meaningful connections between brands and influencers – and it’s not as exclusive as you think.
Fullers and Burger Burger have teamed up to play cupid for a match-making campaign via Motion Sickness Studio. Hoping that burgers and wine are the perfect aphrodisiac, the two companies will host dates for lucky entrants looking for love.
While a collaboration between a burger restaurant and ferry service may seem a bit unconventional, creative director and founder of Motion Sickness Studio Sam Stuchbury says the companies have a cross over in their target demographics.
Motion Sickness Studio launched a unique start-up initiative last week called ‘MSS Startups’, geared towards younger prospective clients, which will see the studio trading its services for equity, a move founder Sam Stuchbury says was a pretty natural step to take. Here’s a look at the new service and how it all works.
Live streaming app Periscope is relatively new on the scene, but already some big brands are finding creative ways to use the platform to market themselves. After finding some good examples of brands using it abroad we’ve had a hunt around for some New Zealand examples, and the feedback so far is promising. We also take a look at some of the dangers of live streaming and how the content is monitored.
The rapidly growing ‘better burger’ segment has brought joy to the mouths of many New Zealanders—and some concern to the cheaper, more quotidian fast food incumbents (in a classic case of if you can’t beat them, join them, McDonald’s is attempting to ride the premium train with some new ‘create your own’ options). Burger Burger has quickly become one of Auckland’s favourite posh burger establishments since Mimi Gilmour, she of Mexico fame, launched it last year and Motion Sickness Studio (MSS) has helped make that happen.
As traditional boundaries around production and advertising start to blur, some of the more progressive companies are doing much more than just filming pretty pictures. Motion Sickness Studio, which kicked into gear in Dunedin around 18 months ago, could be placed in that category. And now it’s moved north to try and get a slice of the content creation market in Auckland. Co-founder Sam Stuchbury sits down for a chat.
From typically humble New Zealand beginnings, Stolen Rum has grown rapidly in recent years, with some experienced campaigners joining the team and some big distribution deals that have put its products on shelves outside the homeland. And, in keeping with some of its past marketing efforts, it recently ran a unique giveaway in Miami, Sydney and Dunedin.
Humans seem to have an innate fascination with slo-mo, as evidenced by the eight million or so clips on YouTube. And, judging by the photo booth tomfoolery at various awards evenings, they’re also quite narcissistic, so Dunedin-based design and production shop Motion Sickness Studio has combined those two things and set its slo-mo station loose on the nation.


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Telecom Lead America: Annual sales of mobile cellular broadband modems and embedded cellular PCs will grow to 250 million units by 2018, says a new report from Strategy Analytics.
The market of mobile broadband devices will be driven by rapid growth of LTE, which is expected to increase by 187 million units between from 2012 and 2018, according to Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies report, “LTE and Cellular Routers Will Stimulate Mobile Broadband Device Rebound: 5 Year Forecast and Analysis.”
The mobile broadband device recovery will begin in 2013, after an 8 percent year on year decline in 2012. The growing need for cellular routers for USB modem replacements for connecting multiple CE devices will push the market forward.
“The mobile broadband modem market struggled in 2012, with a decline in vendor shipments overall, as market leaders Huawei and ZTE were unable to maintain the continued growth of previous years as overall spending on modems decreased during the recession as users became more cautious over spending on data plans for modems,” said Andrew Brown, executive director of Enterprise Research at Strategy Analytics and author of the report.
“Discretionary spending tended to favor smartphones and bolt-on plans for tethering in a number of cases, or spending was withheld altogether,” Brown added.
However, the increasing dependence on persistent ubiquitous connectivity, coupled with the widespread emergence of high-speed LTE networks, the multi-purpose nature of cellular hotspot routers that can connect up to 8 consumer electronics devices via Wi-Fi and the opportunities in developed and emerging market means there is plenty of life left in the mobile broadband devices market, Brown said.


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Struggling tape, disk, and optical media maker Imation has found its salvation: it's Nexsan, the maker of block-and-file storage systems based on flash storage that Imation is shelling out $120m to acquire. The acquisition of Nexsan – one of myriad storage startups competing in this hot part of the IT market – comes hot on the …
Nexsan is not "one of the myriad storage statups", but rather found itself competing with a myriad of startups. Might explain why Imation got them on the cheap.
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“I was behind this lady with a shopping basket loaded with sugary drinks, potato chips, cookies and candy. She had nothing of any nutritional value in her cart and when it came time for her to pay, she pulled out her EBT card and paid for it.” Mississippi State Senator
“Several months ago, I was in line at a local grocery store when I noticed someone with children in front of me purchasing an entire grocery cart full of chips, soda, doughnuts, ice cream and other junk food. Unfortunately, she pulled out her EBT card, which carries her monthly Food Stamp allocation-and, swiped it to pay for all of that unhealthy food and off she went.” California State Senator
Other times political constituents complain about what they saw at the supermarket. Either way, it’s only going one place: a request from the state to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a waiver to restrict the type of food purchases allowed by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps). That request will either die in discussion among state legislators or be rejected by the USDA.
How do I know this? It has already happened at least 11 times. Minnesota led the way with such a request in 2004. The USDA told Minnesota their desire to ban the purchase of candy and soft drinks with SNAP dollars attempted to redefine the USDA definition of food couldn’t be accommodated. Since then, Illinois, Oregon, New York, California, Vermont, Texas, Florida, Montana, Mississippi, and Iowa have also tried their hand at restricting the types of food eligible for SNAP purchases.
In my last post, Replacing hunger with health: a food stamp dilemma, I outlined why the USDA continually rejects requests to limit types of foods SNAP dollars can purchase:
- There aren’t any standards for distinguishing which foods are “good” or “bad”.
- Creating such standards and then classifying the hundreds of thousands of foods on grocery store shelves would be complicated and expensive.
- Since most food stamp recipients supplement their food budget with their own money, they would probably still buy the restricted foods anyway.
- There isn’t any evidence pointing to food stamps as the cause of bad dietary choices or diet-related diseases like obesity. Low income people are making similar food choices to the rest of America.
For these and other reasons, incentives for healthier, rather than restrictions on unhealthy, purchases appear to be a more effective way to increase the health-related outcomes of SNAP. However, the crux of why many state legislators suggest SNAP purchasing restrictions doesn’t seem to lie in public health and that might explain why their policy suggestions on this topic have little hope to do so. Rather, the policies seem driven by a desire to feel better about how federal tax dollars are spent. Of course we want to “feel good” about where our taxes go, but that should be the product of sound policies, not an end in itself.
In the most recent attempts to restrict SNAP purchases, I’ve tracked down justifications given by state legislators for their proposals. It seems that the restriction-focused policies stem from how people don’t want to spend money. In a future post, I’ll describe the decision making process of the incentive-focused policies, whose creators focus more on how they do want to use resources.
|State||Year||State Politician||D or R?||Legislation||Justification|
|Iowa||2012||Rep. Dave Heaton||Republican||House File 2434||As quoted in a Radio Iowa news story: “And we’re not saying they can’t buy these unhealthy foods,” Heaton says. “We’re saying if you do, you’ve got to use your own money.”|
|Mississippi||2012||Sen. Bill Stone||Democrat||Senate Bill 2293||As quoted in a TheGrio article: “we should not be paying for this junk.’ We should be providing nutrition to sustain children.”|
|Montana||2012||Rep. Tom Burnett||Republican||Tweet from @TomBurnettHD63: “Food Stamps Are (57%) a Waste of Money. What people buy is junk food,obesity-promoting foods. Almost no fruit, veggies. http://bit.ly/fJ7bEj”|
|Florida||2012||Rep. Ronda Storms & Sen. Scott Plakon||Republican||Senate Bill 1658 & House Bill 1401||As quoted in an L. A. Times article: “If we’re going to be cutting services across the board,” she said, “then people can live without potato chips, without store-bought cookies, without their sodas.”|
|Texas||2011||Rep. Susan King||Republican||House Bill 3451||As quoted in Longview News-Journal article: “It’s really a dual thing for me — it’s health,” she said, noting inferior nutritional characteristics of many items food stamps can buy. “And it’s a misuse of taxpayer funds.”|
|Vermont||2011||Rep. Oliver Olsen||Democrat||On his blog, Rep. Olsen wrote: “..we would encourage healthier choices, while reducing long-term-healthcare costs that we, the taxpayers, end up paying for…The real question is whether it is appropriate to spend public money on foods that have limited nutritional value, including items that contribute to long-term health problems.”|
|California||2011||Sen. Michael Rubio||Democrat||As quoted in a Bakersfield Californian article: “The question is what should we be using taxpayer funds to purchase,” the Bakersfield Democrat said Tuesday. “In my opinion, we should be focusing on what people need, not what they want.”|
Not mentioned in this table is Mayor Bloomberg’s 2010 request for the USDA to enable a ban on the purchase of sugary drinks with SNAP dollars in New York City. That waiver was also denied.


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Earlier this week we showed you the awesome Pikmin keychains available to Europe for a mere 1700 start points. Today Nintendo made a Pikmin tote bag available to Club Nintendo America that has a series of Pikmin on it with the phrase, “Pikmin tote, attack, multiply, become snacks.” It’s certainly cute, but I don’t know if it’s worth the 400 coins being asked. I’d rather have the keychains.
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Pakistan, Turkey likely to sign Free Trade Agreement soon
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey are expected to sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in May this year.
According to officials, the agreement will enhance bilateral trade between the two countries, Radio Pakistan reported.
“Both sides will share provisional list in the coming round of dialogue for reaching the final agreement for FTA,” said the officials.
The officials said the two countries will hold discussions for agreement on goods, services and investment.
Following the FTA, the officials are confident that Pakistan will get market space in different sectors of the brotherly country including agriculture and pharmaceuticals.


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If all the rumors and reporting is correct, the latest version of the Apple iPad, tentatively called the ‘iPad Air 2’ will be debuted in less than 48 hours. Apple will be holding a press event on the 16th of October where it plans not just to debut this new device, but also new MacBooks and perhaps even a larger-screened ‘iPad Pro’.
Despite Apple’s notorious secrecy surrounding its devices, as with the iPhone 6, it seems images of the final design have leaked just before the event. Vietnamese tech site Tihnte.vn appears to have got their hands on one of the new iPads despite the company’s best attempts to keep it away from prying eyes.
Check out some of the leaked images of this device in the gallery below!


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Hyundai Unveils Its New World Rally Car
The 2017 World Rally Championship once again is coming around the corner and its participants are gearing up to for the big race. Hyundai unveils its new World Rally car and reveals some of its specs. Will it bring excitement to fans in the upcoming event?
New Rules Bring New Cars
As reported by Motor Sport, the 2017 Word Rally Championship (WRC) will have new rules that are directed toward showing the importance of not just the aspect of aerodynamics but the power of the engine and mechanical grip as well. In light of the new rules, Hyundai's new WRC car is currently undergoing a certain program as a test for the next big race.
The New World Rally Car Specs
Apparently, all the cars that will be participating in the World Rally Championship will be making use of the same 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engines in compliance to the rules for the 2016 season. However, the restrictors on the turbo have been loosened up a little bit from 33mm to 36 mm, TopGear noted. This will allow the original Hyundai i20 power to go from 330 brake horsepower to 376 brake horsepower.
The powertrain is paired with a six-speed paddle-shift sequential gearbox and an all-wheel drive (AWD) drivetrain. Accordingly, there will be a new active central differential that drivers can use to adjust the amount of torque that is distributed to the wheels to increase speed in terms of cornering.
Hyundai Wants The Championship
Apparently, the Hyundai does not want to be just a mere participant in the 2017 WRC. "It's an opportunity to put into practice everything we have learned and experienced in the past three seasons. All teams are starting from scratch so we are on equal footing. Having finished in second position in 2016, we want to demonstrate our ability to fight for the Championship in 2017 and we are confident the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC will help us do just that," said Michael Nangdan, Hyundai team principal. From Nangdan's statement alone, it is clear that the Hyundai team is aiming to get the championship.
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It seems like every time I travel home, I’m asked all kinds of strange questions about China. But without fail the conversation always turns to food and then the craziest question I have ever heard: Do they eat dogs?
Despite having the second largest economy and some of the largest and most modern cities in the world, for some reason people still think that Chinese eat dogs. They think that the KFCs, McDonalds, and Starbucks, on every corner, are serving up hot dogs (not the American kind). This is just wrong. So, what are they doing with the dogs?
Chinese Pet Care Industry Overview
The Chinese are pampering, spoiling and spending billions of dollars a year on their “second child.” How much are they spending? According to Bloomberg, Chinese pet owners are spending a record $1.2 billion dollars a year on pet care (mainly dog care).
In an article titled China Poodle ‘Babies’ Spur $1.2 Billion Pet-Care Market, Bloomberg reports: “About 33 million households in China keep a cat or dog, according to Euromonitor. Expenditure on pet care will reach 7.84 billion yuan this year, a 46 percent increase since 2007, the London-based consumer researcher said. It predicts the market will increase a further 64 percent by 2017, with 12.9 billion yuan splurged on pet food, health care and dietary supplements.”
By 2017 the market value is estimated to reach $2.15 billion dollars. What is spurring all this growth? The government’s one child policy is a major factor along with an increase in disposable income. The one child policy levies heavy fines on any family that births more than one child (it’s not quite that simple, but for this report that’s all you really need to know.)
With most families unable or unwilling to pay the fines many are buying dogs or other pets and treating them like a second child. All the money, time and energy that would have been spent raising a second child is now spent on raising a pet.
Chinese Pet Care Industry – Now
The recent food scares in China have caused many mainlanders to seek international food brands. The growing middle class now has more money to spend on imported products and they are becoming more health conscious. This growing concern is not stopping at the dinner table, many households are now more conscious about what type of food they feed their pets.
Reports about pet food from China not containing meat products or killing pets is causing great concern about the safety and regulatory practices in China. We will continue to see a consumer push to improve regulations and until regulations are improved we will see many consumers looking for trusted foreign brands.
Other trends in pet care are accessories. It is starting to get cooler in the evening and many dogs can be seen sporting their fall outfits. Dog clothes is a major trend in China. Everything from shoes to hats, if you can put it on the dog, you can buy it. The pet shops are full of outfits for any sporty dog and some markets have stalls fully devoted to dog clothes.
Chinese Pet Care Industry – Market Growth
According to Euromonitor International, “With greater demands of convenience for pet owners and increasing humanization trend towards pets, the prepared food percentage is expected to be higher over the forecast period than over the review period. This means that more households will switch from home-made food to prepared food for their pets.
In addition to the positive impact on pet food sales, these demands will also drive pet products like pet dietary supplements, pet clothes and pet toys to record stable growth. Thus, in line with the rising disposable income and consumer conceptions of pet care products, pet care is expected to record robust growth over the forecast period.”
We can expect to see growth at around 9 percent in the next few years, compared with 6 percent in the United Kingdom, 4 percent in the United States and 3 percent in France. We can also expect growth in breed-specific food. “The premium segment keeps on outperforming in pet care in China as on one hand, healthy ingredients with high quality are the key consideration for pet owners whilst on the other hand, specific segments like breed-specific food are needed.”
Chinese Pet Care Industry – Final Thoughts
Recently, I adopted a cat and I am slowly forking over RMBs. I noticed that most shops are local and no major brands (i.e. Petsmart) have penetrated the Chinese market. Petsmart is known as Lee Pet (interview with the Beijing GM) in China, but due to the Chinese buying habits there doesn’t seem to be one major player in the Chinese Pet Care Industry.
This leaves the field open for growth and more research needs to be done but with a 64% increase in the next few years. Now is the time to make a move. Well, you should have already made your move, but there is still time and great growth opportunity.
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text: In terms of precious metals, India's claim to fame has long been its status as the world's biggest gold consumer.aHowever, recent data released by both the World Gold Council (WGC) and the Indian government suggests that it won't be long before the country is known for its consumption of another precious metal: silver. a India's seat at the top of the gold consumption podium has been shaky for some time. At the beginning of last year, Gold Investing News reported that according to Marcus Grubb, managing director of investment at the WGC, China was likely to emerge as the largest gold market in the world for the first time in 2012. While that didn't happen, Grubb now believes that 2013 will be the year that China takes the lead. He told Bloomberg this July, "Chinaawill probably be the world's biggest gold consumer this year for the first time on an annual basis.aThat will be driven by both jewellery and investment demand. Jewellery will be the biggest overall demand segment, but investment will grow fastest." The other side of the equation is Indian silver demand, a topic first discussed by Silver Investing News (SIN) in July. At the time, SIN reported that as per Sprott Asset Management's Eric Sprott and David Franklin, India imported 2,400 metric tons (MT) of the white metal in the first five months of 2013, a significant figure given thataIndia's record for silver imports, in 2008, is 5,048 MT. Last week, Franklin was back with more silver import numbers from India. In an article published on October 8, he notes that the most current import data from the Indian government shows that India imported US$1.78 billion worth of silver during the second quarter, up a whopping 311 percent from the year-ago period. That means the country brought in 3,015 MT of the white metal in the first half of the year, "putting Indians on track to import more than 6,030 tonnes of silver this year."